Fedora 11 on an Old Laptop
September 10th, 2009My old laptop from 2003 runs the original Centrino (Banias) with a 1.3MHz Pentium M. Up till now it’s dual booted Windows XP and Fedora 9 but since I never use it I decided to wipe clean and just install Fedora 11.
It actually runs amazingly well on a full gnome desktop, it’s fast, responsive, boots in about 30 seconds and shuts down in about 5 seconds! I’m sure it actually runs faster than it did with the old install.
I’m pleased that a new OS still runs fine on an old laptop and despite the increasing size and complexity of the OS it doesn’t seem to have impacted performance.
